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Divorces on the rise

LAST year, 21,033 Hangzhou couples filed for divorce, 10.3 percent more than in 2015, while 63,260 couple married, a drop of 6.5 percent year on year, the Hangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau said.

The bureau attributed the rise in divorce to women seeking indepen­dence, greater social acceptance of divorce, and well-off people pursuing spiritual life.

About 65 percent of new couples are in the 20-29 age group, 20 percent in 30-39 age group, 7.6 percent in 40-49 age group, 4.3 percent in 50-59 age group, and 2.3 percent in over-60 age group.

The number of remarriages in­creased by 240 last year to 4,644 couples. Marital counseling and mediation rooms, run by charity or­ganizations, can be found in marriage offices in the city.

People born in the 1970s care about the parents more than themselves. People born in the 1980s try to make a balance between their own families and their parents. Those born in the 1990s are concerned about spousal relationship, some experts said.




 

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